Life Itself (2018)
Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina) and Olivia Wilde (Her) lead a multi-generational love story spanning both decades and continents.
- Director:
- Dan Fogelman ('Danny Collins')
- Writer:
- Dan Fogelman
- Cast:
- Oscar IsaacOlivia WildeAnnette BeningAntonio BanderasOlivia CookeMandy PatinkinLaia Costa
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressIt is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are.
Time Out
pressOverall, his movie feels like an entire season of This Is Us compressed into two frustratingly uneven hours of tearjerking and grief porn.
The New York Times
pressIsn't it amazing how human destinies intertwine? This movie seems intent on persuading you that the answer is "no."
The Guardian
pressYou rarely get the sense of Fogelman's characters being complex figures with internal lives - instead they're merely there to smile weakly through whatever trauma their sadistic creator puts them through.
Screen Daily
pressBarely a moment seems to pass without a birth, a death, a betrayal, a starling revelation or a life-changing bombshell.
Los Angeles Times
pressThe worst thing about Life Itself is not that it is emotionally sadistic. It's just how much it wants to be emotionally sadistic, while missing the mark by a mile.
Variety
pressIt is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are.
Time Out
pressOverall, his movie feels like an entire season of This Is Us compressed into two frustratingly uneven hours of tearjerking and grief porn.
The New York Times
pressIsn't it amazing how human destinies intertwine? This movie seems intent on persuading you that the answer is "no."
The Guardian
pressYou rarely get the sense of Fogelman's characters being complex figures with internal lives - instead they're merely there to smile weakly through whatever trauma their sadistic creator puts them through.
Screen Daily
pressBarely a moment seems to pass without a birth, a death, a betrayal, a starling revelation or a life-changing bombshell.
Los Angeles Times
pressThe worst thing about Life Itself is not that it is emotionally sadistic. It's just how much it wants to be emotionally sadistic, while missing the mark by a mile.
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